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Human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelium in patients with age-related macular degeneration and Stargardt's macular dystrophy: follow-up of two open-label phase 1/2 studies

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The results suggest that hESC-derived cells could provide a potentially safe new source of cells for the treatment of various unmet medical disorders requiring tissue repair or replacement.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2015-02-07. It has received 990 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Macular dystrophy & Stargardt disease.

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Hope or Hype: Stem Cells as Therapeutics in Retinal Degenerative Diseases

TL;DR: In this book chapter, the key concepts involving both the endogenous and exogenous stem cells for retinal degenerative diseases and their potential advantages and the limitations will be discussed.
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Clinical results of neurorestorative cell therapies and therapeutic indications according to cellular bio-proprieties

TL;DR: In this paper , clinical therapeutic results of neurorestorative cell therapies according to cellular bio-proprieties or cellular functions were introduced, and it was demonstrated from analysis of this review that some indications of cell therapies were not appropriate, they might be reasons why their neuro-restorative effects could not be proved by multicenter, randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials.
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Progress In Stem Cells Based Replacement Therapy for Retinal Pigment Epithelium: In Vitro Differentiation to In Vivo Delivery.

TL;DR: In this article , the basic strategies currently employed for stem cell-based RPE derivation, their delivery, and recent clinical studies related to pRPE transplantation in patients are discussed.
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La investigación con células troncales y la creatividad científica

TL;DR: For instance, induced Pluripotent Stem Cells were discovered in 1998 and many speculations arose about their therapeutic possibilities, motivated by ideological, political and economic aspects.
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Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Adult Human Fibroblasts by Defined Factors

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that iPS cells can be generated from adult human fibroblasts with the same four factors: Oct3/4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc.
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Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts

TL;DR: Human blastocyst-derived, pluripotent cell lines are described that have normal karyotypes, express high levels of telomerase activity, and express cell surface markers that characterize primate embryonic stem cells but do not characterize other early lineages.
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Establishment in culture of pluripotential cells from mouse embryos

TL;DR: The establishment in tissue culture of pluripotent cell lines which have been isolated directly from in vitro cultures of mouse blastocysts are reported, able to differentiate either in vitro or after innoculation into a mouse as a tumour in vivo.
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The Retinal Pigment Epithelium in Visual Function

TL;DR: This review summarizes the current knowledge of RPE functions and describes how failure of these functions causes loss of visual function.
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